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BEAUTIES OF SCOTLAND.
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Loch Earn Head, as well as from Killin, expect to bait their horses, but they will get no corn for them; therefore do you carry some for yours, from Killin. At neither of these houses can you, or your servants, eat any thing they can give you with comfort; and it is impossible to sleep there, both houses being mere dirty huts; therefore all travellers going that road to Fort William from Callender, should contrive to sleep at Tyndrum, as well as those from Killin; and to beware of the houses on the Moor. The road from Killin to Tyndrum, as soon as you get up the hill, joins the road that comes from Loch Earn Head, through Glen Ogle (which you looked into when you were at Loch Earn Head), and becomes extremely good. Many hands were at work upon that road in 1796; and, when completed, it will be as fine a drive of twenty-one miles as can be taken. Observe as you advance, the two high towering parts of Benmore, in Glen Dochart. About three miles beyond Loch Dochart to the left, you will see a road to Dumbarton, which, if passable for a carriage, would be charming to go to that place, through Glen Fallach, and by the side of Loch Lomond, from the head to the foot, the length of which is full 24 miles; but unless Government